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EveryWordleaddict knows that your choice of start word is vital.
Picking the right one can be the difference between solving the daily puzzle in two guesses (joy!)
or needing five or six (boo!
); it could even lead to a lost streak, and nobody wants to experiencethat.
In hard mode, meanwhile, the ‘bot’s favorite word is now TROPE.
This is not a big deal by any means, then.
In fact, I also discussed it in my article onwhat I learned from achieving a 500-day Wordle streak.
I’m guessing that none of those six words are on the list.
For almost all of that time I’ve used STARE as my start word.
STARE served me well across all of those games for two reasons.
Firstly, it’s a good Wordle word that uses very common letters.
All five letters are in the top 10 overall.
It’s a simple matter of probability.
If I received a green A, I would play CLING.
A green E would be followed by LINGO.
The downside to all this was that playing Wordle got a little… dull.
No, worse than that; it became mundane.
bang out in STARE, bang out in a second good word, solve in three.
Goodbye STARE, hello… All of this was my own fault, of course, so I decided to do something about it.
It only contains three distinct letters!
Of course, luck still plays a huge role.
The main takeaway has been that my scores are now nowhere near as consistent.
It’s become a real rollercoaster ride.
Again, this is a good thing.
